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A common [[Amusing Injuries|Amusing Injury]] in cartoons is for a character receiving an injury - especially to the posterior - to jump impossibly high into the air, usually accompanied by a drawn-out YEEEEEOOOOOWWWWW. Occasionally happens in live-action wacky comedy as well.

[[Looney Tunes]] is the [[Trope Codifier]] for [[Pain Powered Leap|Pain Powered Leaps]]. Though it was used in other cartoons, Looney Tunes is the one that most people recognize as the source of the popularity of this trope, as well as the reason that perhaps its most common method of execution is needle pricks to the hindquarters.

* In ''[[Naruto]]'', Team 7's bell test challenge against Kakashi involved the unveiling of his secret technique, "One Thousand Years of Death". The move actually isn't what it sounds like - Kakashi simply strikes Naruto in the rectum before propelling him several feet away into air (with much hollering from Naruto). [[Chekhov's Skill|It turns out later that the skill has a much more practical application beyond comedy.]] During his climactic battle with Gaara, Naruto realizes that the technique's goal is to target the blind spot of the user's opponent; Naruto decides to get behind Gaara, substitute exploding tags for his fingers, and [[Stuff Blowing Up|Stuff Blowing Up ensues.]]

* In the Disney film version of ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', Cogsworth slides down the stair banister and jabs Lefou in the butt with a sword, causing this to happen.

* Banzai the hyena in Disney's ''[[The Lion King]]'' jumps about 30 feet into the air after he is knocked into a bramble thicket by the other hyenas.

* This is a plot point in the animated version of [[The Phantom Tollbooth]]. King Azaz is asking if there are any volunteers to help Milo on his quest, and at first no one comes forth. However, the Spelling Bee sneaks up and stings the Humbug in the butt, [[Got Volunteered|causing the Humbug to stand up suddenly and making everyone think he was volunteering]]. Later on, in Milo's car Humbug exhibits a delayed reaction and finally leaps up in the air with a scream (and apparently lands right back in the car).

* This happens to Mario whenever he touches the lava in Mario 3D platform games, beginning with the [[Lethal Lava Land]] in ''[[Super Mario 64]]''.

* In the PC game ''Donald Duck Goin' Quackers'', Donald does this if he touches lava.

* Happens to Wile E. Coyote in a few of the [[Looney Tunes]] shorts. In "To Beep or Not To Beep", the roadrunner's speed causes telephone poles and cacti beside the road to be uprooted and causes a bridge to contract just after he passes over it. When Wile E. falls through where said bridge used to be, one of the cacti falls as well. The standard top-down view of Wile E. falling is reversed with Wile E. coming back up all the way back up to the top of the cliff howling in pain.

** In "Tired and Feathered" the Coyote attaches a motor and propeller to his back to fly, but the propeller chops his tail and causes him to jump off the screen.

** [[Daffy Duck]] as [[The Scarlet Pumpernickel]] scales a high wall by [[Invoked Trope|pinching himself with a needle in the butt]].

** In the [[Looney Tunes]] short "A Tale Of Two Kitties", Babbitt gets his partner Catstello up a ladder by pricking him in the butt with a needle.

* On the [[Andy Panda]] cartoon "Fish Fry", a fish bites a cat on the finger, who reacts by jumping up hundreds of feet in the air.

* In "[[Red Hot Riding Hood]]", Wolfie sticks Grandma in the butt with a needle and she jumps through the roof of her penthouse. The sticking is usually edited out when shown on television, so you just see Wolfie holding the needle and then it cuts straight to the jump.